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Wi. §b. Jtanitarg CommisstDn, 

CENTRAL OFFICE, 

Washington, D. C, July 15, 18G5. 

With the issue of the accompanying circular, it is deemed 
important to call the earnest attention of all those co-work- 
ers who have so faithfully contributed to the usefulness of 
the Commission during the past four years, to the work of 
its "Army and Navy Claim Agency," now being prosecuted 
by agencies established throughout the loyal States, for the 
gratuitous adjustment and collection of claims against the 
Government, for soldiers, sailors, and their dependents. It 
is most earnestly desired, that within the next sixty days the 
fact that, this enterprise has been inaugurated may be 
brought to the knowledge of, and the opportunity of enjoy- 
ing its benefits afforded to every soldier and soldier's family 
throughout the Union. To the Branches and Aid Societies 
the Commission appeals with confidence, to enlist their 
lively interest in this effort. A list of the Local Agencies 
already established by the Commission is appended. Each 
Aid Society should select the names of those agents most 
accessible to the field of labor, and should direct in person, 
if practicable, every claimant to such agent. Where this 
cannot be accomplished, the claimant's name and post-office 
address, and the name, rank, company, regiment, and ser- 
vice of the soldier, with the date of his discharge or death, 
should be taken, and a letter written at once to the agent, 
who will return the proper blanks, with directions for their 
execution. 

These suggestions are simple, but if energetically carried 
into operation, most valuable results must follow. 

This is a work worthy of your utmost zeal and energy, 
and in its accomplishment all the appliances of the press, 
of public speech, and private effort, of the various local 
interests so familiar to you all, should be freely used. 

Let but the united activity of all be exercised in this enter- 
prise, and in the future it will be rightly termed the crown- 
ing effort of the Commission's career of beneficence. 

JNO. S. BLATCIIFORD, 

General Secretary. 



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LIST OIF ^GKEITSTTS. 



MAINE. 

Augusta Joseph Burton 

Bangor Ruel Smith 

Bucksport J- E. Sherman 

Corinna Freeman Knowles 

Levant T. H. Wiggin 

Newburgh Ariel Kelly 

Paris Wm. A. Pidgin 

Portland W. H. Fessenden 

Springfield A. D. Clarke 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

Concord Sam'l C. Eastman 

Manchester Cyrus A. Sullaway 

Portsmouth Bev. Sullivan Holnian 



VERMONT. 

Brattleboro Geo. H. Bailey 

Burlington A. J. Howard 

Montpelier D. L. Fuller 

Rutland James E. Porter 



MASSACHUSETTS. 

Boston Francis S. Dyer 

Lowell N. D. A. Sawyer 

New Bedford Wm. Almy 

Neponset Thos. Temple 

Springfield Lewis A. Tiilt 

Worcester Jno. A. Lovell 

Greenfield Geo. W. Bartlett 

Pittsfield 



RHODE ISLAND. 
Providence Wm. R. Walker 



CONNECTICUT. 

Bridgeport Andrew Grogan 

Hartford Rich'd W. Roberts 

New Haven 

New London Chas. M. Wilcox 



NEW YORK. 

New York City H. Greenfield 

Aibanv McClure & Miller 

Buffalo F. G. Pattison 

Elmira Mrs. Chas. B. Stuart 

Rochester Dr. A. Mandeville 

Syracuse S. F. Smith 

Troy ..B. H. Hall 

Utica Geo. C. Carter 

Ogdensburg Gardner B. Chapin 

Watertown Lucian E. Carter 

Plattsburg Oren C Gregg 

Ludlow ville John Ludlow 

Lenox R. II W Bruce 

Hampton H. C. Broughton 

Spencer C. W. Bradley 

Poughkeepsie Walter C. Allen 



NEW JERSEY. 

Trenton..... D. Cooper Allinson 

Freehold 

Newark David A. Ryerson 



PENNSYLVANIA. 

Harrisburg DeWitt & Snodgrass 

Pittsburg B. F. Brown 

Erie A. J. Foster 

Wilkesbarre Hubbard B. Payne 

Carbondalc D. N. Lathrope 

Meadoville D. C. McCoy 



Bhippensburg B. W. Thrush ] Adrian C E. Barstow 

Amity J- B. Huston Kalamazoo. ...Chas. A. Thompson, Jr. 

Jackson G. Thompson Gridley 

Grand Rapids Isaac H. Parrish 



BELAWARE. 
Wilmington Levi Clark Bird 



MARYLANB. 

Baltimore J. P. Creager 

Frederick Joseph M. Ebberts 

WEST VIRGINIA. 

Wheeling James Gilchrist 

Grafton James M Scrogin 

OHIO. 

Cleveland W. H. Gaylord 

Bay ton Robert Brundrett 

Zanesville Bavid Hull 

Chiilicothe Thad. A. Minshall 

Marietta George M. Woodbridge 

Bteubenville W. A. Walden 

Toledo Hartwell Osborn 

Mansfield Vance & Bailey 

INDIANA. 

Indianapolis Temple C. Harrison 

La Fayette Taylor & Watson 

Evansville Charles E. Marsh 

Richmond Lewis B. Stubbs 

Madison .....Bavid G. Phillips 

La Porte Wm, Andrew 

Terre Haute Thos.C. Bailey 

Fort Wayne Bavid P. Whedon 

ILLINOIS. 

Chicago M. B. Bartlett 

Peoria Chauncey Nye 

Quiney II. A. Castle 

Alton James Newman 

Centralia Samuel P. Tufts 



MICHIGAN. 
Detroit Wm. Jennison, Jr. 



MINNESOTA. 



St. Paul Jno. Peller 



WISCONSIN. 



Milwaukie Wm. G. Whipple 

Madison Buel E. Hutchinson 

Fond-du-Lac N. C Giffin 

Watertown Calvin B. Skinner 

La Crosse Stogdill & Baniels 

IOWA. 



Bubuque E. S. Norris 

Bavenport Chas. H. Kent 

Burlington J. P Brown 

Bes Moines Geo. P. Abel 



MISSOURI. 
St. Louis Henry M. Post 



KENTUCKY. 

Louisville H. H. Burkholder 

Bowling Green E. F. Kinnard 

Frankfort Jno. M. Brown 



TENNESSEE. 
Knoxville Chas. Seymour 

KANSAS. 

Leavenworth Chas. H. Crane 

Lawrence Eugene L. Akin 

LOUISIANA. 
New Orleans C. W. Seatos 



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